Trippy ‘COLOR OUT OF SPACE’ Makes Technicolor The Bad Guy
Just as weird and trippy as you would expect from a Lovecraftian movie about a malevolent color, ‘Color Out of Space’ uses familiar genre staples and the always-game and always-cray…
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‘UNDERWATER’ is Peak Incoherent January Hollywood Flotsam
Perfect for fans who love both bad sci-fi rip-offs and TJ Miller comedy, Underwater is often a spectacularly incoherent mess you can’t help but snicker at. 20,000 leagues below the…
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‘STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER’ Blindly Resurrects the Past To Finish The Saga
The Star Wars series as we know it comes to a close in a clunky and almost-kinda-maybe satisfying fashion, but not without its shortcomings. The force may not be strongest…
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FYC Capsule Review: ‘JUST MERCY’
A punched-up Lifetime movie with a laudable cast, Destin Daniel Cretton’s Just Mercy is a courtroom procedural where the message burns brighter than the filmmaking. A predictable affair with limited…
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Stunningly Mounted ‘1917’ A Towering Technical Achievement
‘1917’ takes an intimate humanist approach to war epics to often staggering results, the proven pairing of Sam Mendes and cinematography Roger Deakins impress top technicians working at the top…
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FYC Capsule Review: ‘BOMBSHELL’
Like Adam McKay before him, Jay Roach has shifted from the world of comedy to that of the didactic and politically-tinted American drama and with the effective and affecting Bombshell, his…
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FYC Capsule Review: ‘RICHARD JEWELL’
Clint Eastwood can’t hide his absolute disdain for the media in cogent but flat biopic Richard Jewell, which tells the story of a low-rent security guard who stumbles across a…
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FYC Capsule Review: ‘PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE’
Céline Sciamma’s simmering Portrait of a Lady on Fire burns with a quiet feminine passion. In 1770, two young women confront love and lust in each other’s arms, as a…
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FYC Capsule Review: ‘THE AERONAUTS’
When The Aeronauts lifts off the ground, the film from Tom Harper truly does take off. Down on ground-level, everything is a bit more sour than soar though. Benefitting from…
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‘UNCUT GEMS’ Bets Big on Sandman’s Dramatic Chops
Adam Sandler puts on his serious shoes as a neurotic compulsive gambler in the Safdie Brother’s high-stress drama ‘Uncut Gems’. A challenging picture sure to leave you scrambled, the film…